Electric motor and controller for the same.



PATBNTED APR. 16; 1907.

No. 350,475. I

' J. H..HERTNER.

.ELEOTRIG MOTOR A'ND CONTROLLER FOR THE SAME.

APPLIOATION IILED MAY42'8, 190's.

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J. H. HBRTNER. ELECTRIC "MOTOR AND CONTROLLER FOR. THE SAME.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 28, 1906.

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O J. H. HERTNER, v BLBOTRI MOTOR AND'GONTR'OLLER FOR THE SAME.

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, UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIon} JoHN H. HE'RTNER, or CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOROF ONE-HALE TO. BE. w rr COQKINGHAM, OF CLEVELAND. OHIO. lj

.ELE'cTnio MOTOR AND CONTROLLER FoR'THE'sAMEf Application filed May 28,1906; Serial No. 319,031.

the controlling of battery-driven electric motors in such manner that their speed may not only be regulated at will'through the shifting of the batteries from parallel to tandemlconnection, and vice versa, but also may be automatically caused to cut down the speed when the load is increased and to increase the "speed when the load is diminished.

in electric battery-driven vehicles the source of energy'be utilized'in such a way as to economize it in order to attain the maximum possible mileage and increase the radius of possible operation. It is awell-known fact that the storage batteries commonly employed in such vehiclesretain only a certain amount of energy, and'if this be expended rapidly'the number of hours of-operation is considerably lessened. Furthermore, the

chemical character of the batteries is such' that the total amount of energy liberated on a rapid dischargeis less than that liberated ata normal rate. Thus if the vehicle is operated at a high'rate of speed the energy necessary to carry it the given distance is greater than if the speed be moderate, and this fact applies as well if the. road be muddy, rough, or otherwise unfavorable or if there are hills to climb. Another effect of rapid discharge is the falling of the electric pressure or volt-f age, which cuts down the efliciency of electric motors on a ratiofar greaterthan-the simple ratio of normal voltage or, pressure. For these reasons I have endeavored to construct a motor which shall automatically deever, a grade is reached, the senesstrength 1s I I greatly mcreased, and'the opposing shunt be-, ing constant its effect in proportionto the sev crease its speed when taking on an increase in load, as in climbing hills, and yetsha'll on an average smoothorlevel road maintain a higherrate of speed. In constructing such a motor attentionfshould be given to the following factszA'shunt ewound motor is so constructed that it will maintainan approxi- Specification of Letters Patent.

'ter than before.

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' mately uniform speed regardless of the load which it is called upon to 'pull. This is accompli'shed by a field-winding of many turns of small-sized wire subject to the-uniform voltage of the; battery. A'vehicle propelled by such a motor would tend to run at a constant speedup grades and over" all obstructions, and if thespeed on a level roadway were moderate the power consumption on a steep grade would be enormous. would increase in proportion to the increased current or load. On taking an up grade there would be a heavy'discharge from the batteryand' the voltage would drop, owing to the inability of the chemicalreaction to keep pace with the demand for energy. "A

series-wound motor, which has the field en-' ergized by the current that actually represents the load, would on taking. a grade have its current immediately increased but the in- It is of course of primary importance that creased currentwould mean a more powerful field, more torque, and less speed." The in-' creased torque and the slower speed would j both demand a lower rate of deliveryof the its torque i required energy, and hence a saving of the,

battery. Doubling-the current on a given constantfvoltage would mean doubling the wound motor it would mean practically the same speed and doublethe torque, the speed energy spent andv approximately: doubling. 'the horse-power delivered. In a shuntmultiplied bythe torque being proportional to the horse-power. In a series-wound motor doubling the current would not quite double y the field strength, and this not quite halves the speed, so that the torque would be somewhat less than four 'times its former value.

This is the limit of theseries-wo and motor, and

if a motor could be constructed'to more than quadruple itsitorque ondoubling; its current we would have running conditions even bet- Suppose n a certam.ser1es motor propelling a vehicle at a moderate speed on a'ilevel road a weak shunt-winding os tlonv to the ser es wlndf cc be inserted in 31p ing. This wo reduce the resulting field strength and increase thespeed. ..-.When, howries diminishes, and a point may be reached where it is inappreciable. From these con:

ditions I have been able to construct a motor and reduce its speed beyond the limits'hith-.

this shunt Will, as above pointed out, become negligible when the load is increased and the series windings by consequence become. much stronger.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate an embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a plan of a controlling device for such a system as I have just described, showing the parts in such position that two groups of operating-batteries will be connected in parallel and the current passed through the shunt in a direction to assist the series winding and strengthen the field, thereby giving the motor its greatest torque and lowest speed. Fig. 2 is a plan of the controlling device shifted to a second osition, in which the battery groups are stil in parallel; but the shunt-current is opposed to the series current, so that the field strength is diminished and the speed of the motor is increased. Fig. 3 is a plan showing the controlling device shifted to a third position, where the battery groups are connected in tandem and the shunt-current directed so as to assist the series winding. 4 is a plan showing the controlling device shifted, so that the battery groups are connected in tandem, but the shunt-current directed in opposition to the series winding, so that the highest speed of the motor is attained. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the board on which the contact-strips and contact-buttons are secured. Fig. 6 is a sec tion through the movable arm of the controlling device and the supporting-board, showing brush-and-pin contacts in engagement, respectively, with a contact strip and button. Fig. 7 is a detailed section showing the structure of the spring-pressed contact-pin which establishes the shunt connections. Fig. 8 is a diagram illustrative of the system of wiring and the connections by which the shunt-winding may be connected to assist or oppose the series winding and means whereby such connection may be made while the two groups of batteries are connected in parallel or in tandem.

It will be observed that the supportingplate A has a strip of insulation A, carrying two contact-strips B B which are connected in any suitable manner with opposite poles of one battery group C. For the purpose of making contact with these strips I have mounted two laminated brushes D D of the usual type upon a swinging supporting-arm E, carrying insulation.

p The movement f this "arm may be controlled in any'desired' manner, and any conventionalspring-stops (not shown) may be employed to holdit.in

certain determined positions along the path of its movement. These brushes D l) are. connected, respectively, through'wires Dfil) with opposite poles of the second battery group and itwillbe noted that the contact-strips B B are of. such widththat the pivoted supporting-arm maybe swung through an appreciable distance without breaking contact between the brushes and said strips. Carried by the same arm E is a projecting T-bracket E, having at the outer extremities thereof a pair of spring-pressed contact-pins F F, adapted to ride over and contact with the series of contact-lmttons G Gr G G G GG placed in an arc onthe insulating-strip A, previously mentioned. Th se buttons are individually connected, by means of wires K K with one or the other of the poles of one battery group. in the present instance, as seen by reference to Fig. 8, with that group C with which the contact-strips are connected. From the contact-pins F F wires F F are led directly to the shuntwinding F for the motor II, and the direction of the current through this winding will obviously be determined by the battery connections of the particular contact-buttons with which said contact-pins happen to be in engagement at the time.

The motor is controlled lxy a series winding I, and these two elements are so connected that the current passes through them from a wire L, connected with the same pole of the battery group (7, with which the wire K is connected, and is led away by a wire lb. connected to the same pole of the battery group with which the wire D is connected. 7

It will be noted, by reference to Figs. 1. L. 3, 4, and S, that the contact-l:uttons (i (l G. &c., are so spaced apart that when the contact-brushes l) I) are in enga ement with the contact-strips B B toward the extreme left of their movement, as seen in the 'lignres referred to, the contact-pins F F will be in engagement with buttons G G", connected to the opposite poles of a battery group t". By reference to the same figures it will lie seen that when the contact-brnshes l) l)" are shifted toward the right the shunt connections are first broken: but when the i.-rnshes are moved still farther, but stopped so that r20 they each remain in (-uigagement with :1 contact-strip the contact-pins each come into engagement with contact-buttons (i (2, having battery connections respectively the reverse of those of the buttons-G 3 Thus in the second connection of the shunt with the battery the direction of current through the shunt-winding would be reversed. When the supporting-arm is shifted still farther to the right, so that the right-hand brush 1.) will 1 o pass entirely off of the strip B with which was previously'in engagement, and the lefthand brush I) would'pass fromthe first strip:- 'B to engagement with the second strip B then the contact pins F F controlling the shunt-winding, will first break connection the same battery connections asthe buttons G G, with which the pins F F wereinen-tgagement in the first or extreme leftpositioril Upon the'furthe'r shifting of the supporting arm to the right, but'still maintaining the left-hand contact-brush inengagement withv the right-hand contact-strip, it will be seen that the contact-pins controlling the shuntwinding will first break connection 'With the' battery and will then move into engagement with contact-buttons G G which have. battery connections of-reverse order'to those of,

' the buttons G G and' of the same'order as those of the buttons G G that is to say,

. the direction of the current through the shunt will again be reversed; 7 Now it is tobe noted-on referring to Fig. 8

that in the first or extreme left position of the supporting-arm each of the contact-brushes is in full engagement with a contact-strip and the wiring is such that the two groups of batteries-are connected in parallel," and this parallel connection is maintained in the next position, in which the shunt connections are reversed, since the contact-brushes each remain in engagement 'Witlrtheir respective strips. In the 'position,=however, in-which the right-hand contact-brush D moves off of its contact-strip B and the left-hand brush D moves thereon it is to be noted that the connection between the battery groups isv fore be of double the voltage, and this same connection is maintained in the next positlon, in which the shunt connections are again reversed, since the left-hand brush 1s still engaged with the right-hand contact: strip. Thus it will be seen that I have connected the shunt in such manner that the current may be passed therethrough in either direction or cut out at will both while the current is constant in its-direction through the series winding and while the battery groups are connected in either parallel or tandem.

In the position illustrated in Figs. 1 and 8 it -will be seen that the current is taken from the battery groups which are connected in the'paralleh'thus giving the .lowest voltage,

- and passed through the series and the shunt in the same directionthat is to say, so that .the shunt assists the series in providing a in Fig. 2 ,with the battery oups still impar allel,,the shunt is connecte to oppose the se' ries for the reasons. that I have outlined" the introduction to the specifications? connection would givethe moitoriai tfairsped under a normal load; and lwou-ldfllbeione at-"w which the machine might be'maintainednfor ordinary purposes. Should', however, armnusualload -be thrown onto ,themachine, it

will be noted, of, course,-,,that the,strengthjof' 75 v the series will be greatlyincreasedby, reason of the increased c n'rent,- while' the-shunhb winding remain at ,the lsamef strengtli, f

since the voltage is constant; and will: there z: fore be of proportionately much lessefiecftin f y opposing the series current. The m0tb1iwi,ll-;;f t iereuponunder the strengthened field slow 1. down, and thfeftorque will be increased In" the" position illustrated inglfigg 3; the, same relationsbetweenth ,shuntgand series; a current will be maintained las inFig l the, difference being that thebattery groupsbe ing connected in tande will's upplythgcnp n r vo t g n' he spe d w lli Y increased, subject, of course," to

uponan increase in load. Y

In theposition illustrated; Fig. the Y: I same conditions ,fob'tain asi'nfithel,positionf shown inFigJ'Z with the'exceptiof that thle current is delivered at the higheiri, jage." Thus it will'be seen that Ihave devisedfa', system of control for an electriefmoto whereby at any constant voltage thefmoto will automatically have its speed fredu, V and its'torque increased upon an increaseiifload, and this without the speed of the motor under normal load being reduced. Further, the voltage of the motor-current may be increased by shifting the battery groups from parallel to tandem connection, and the auto matic reduction of speed of the motor on increase in load may be obtained when the battery groups are connected in either parallel or tandem.

Many structural and operative advanta es will be obvious to any one skilled in thlS art, and certain changes in the details of the structure may be made by those desiring to utilize the invention under particular conditions. I therefore do not restrict myself to details of structure, but desire to protect the invention in its broader aspects, as set forth in the foregoing specification and claims below. c

Having thus described Imyinvention, I claim 1. In combination, an electric motor, the field of which is controlled by a series winding, a shunt-winding and connections therefor arranged to cause it to act in opposition to the series winding upon said field independently of fluctuations in the flow of current throu h the series winding.

2-; In combination, an electric motor, the

field of which is controlled by a series wind- I 0 ing, a shunt-Wining arran ea to act upon the direction whi e the sald fielil" and means where ycurrent may be passezl throu h the shunt-winding in either 7 dlrectlon of the current throu hthe senes remalns'constant.

Ircombination, an electric motor, the

field ofWhi'cli'is controlled by a series Winiin'g, a shuiit-winding arranged to act upon 'the said through the shunt-winding may be passed in 1 'either direction field, and means whereby current or 'cut out at will while the directionof the winling' remains constan 1 f 5; In combination, an electric motor, and having its tWo battery groups, "one group positive and ne ative termina respectively wit a pair of contacts, the secondgroup being likewise connected with a pair of contacts movable relatively to and.

s connected 'azlapted to engage with the first-mentioned pair, and connections between one brush of the motor anzl the positive pole of one of saidb; ttery groups an :i between the opposite brush and the negative pole of the other battery roup. Y

6. %n combination, an electric motor and two battery groups, one battery group having its positive and. negative terminals connected current through the series brush 0 respectively with pair of contaetathe seconi battery group being likewise"connected with apair or contacts movable relatively to an: aaaptezi tionecl per, the arrangement of the parts being such that when the two pairs oi contacts are in engagement, the terminals having the same sign shall be connected, and connections between one brush'of the motor ani the positive pole of one of sail. battery groups and between the opposite brush and the negative pole of the other battery roup. 7. In combination, an electric motor, an-i two battery groups, one group having its positive'and ne ative terminals connect-ea respectively wit a pair of contacts, the seconcl group being likewise connecteiwith a pair of contacts movable relatively to anti adapted to engage with the-first-mentiono 1 pair, the arrangement of parts being such that when butone of each pair of contacts is 1n engagement a terminal of one group is connected with aterminalof opposite sign in the second oup} \a-'nd connections between one I 'the motor anf. the positive pole of one of saidbattery groups 8112i between the opposite brush ancl the negative pole of the 0 trierbatt'erygroup, In testlmony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of two wltnesses.

JOHN H. HERTNER. Witnesses;

J. B. WooDwARn, E. B. GILCHRIST.

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